He tells us that suffering doesn’t need an answer. That faith is elusive, mysterious, like a cloud of incense swirling around ...

In the wake of Walter Brueggemann’s passing, we’re left with his challenge: Preach not to explain but to evoke. Not to tame ...

By embracing the messages conveyed by these long and short poems. Earth Day poems are more than just catchy lines; they are calls to action, and expressions of hope for a greener future.

While many people celebrate Christmas as a Christian holiday centered around ... We’ve got you covered with both short poems and excerpts, as well as underappreciated works.

In light of this, she wrote short yet profound poems for A Galaxy of Thoughts. “Today’s impatient readers can pick up this book for only five minutes a day and still have the chance of being ...

This is a short poem with immeasurable depth ... this planet with humans who are the same as us. While the full poem has a religious side, its message is universal. Not to be mistaken with ...

various nonfiction works of Christian apologetics, and literary criticism. Now, a literary scholar has discovered a previously unknown short poem by Lewis among a cache of documents acquired by ...

You'll find long poems to spend an evening with and short poems to read in snatches of time. Maybe that's why poetry has even taken over TikTok. But if you need a quick-acting dose of inspiration ...

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In the Renaissance, of course, devotional poetry went viral, with landmark religious poems by Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw, Greville, Sidney, Southwell, Spenser, Mary Herbert—the list goes on. The ...

The volume was a book of devotional poems by English poet and clergyman George Herbert, who had died in March 1633 at age 39, likely of tuberculosis. Religious poetry was nothing new to Herbert ...